Alison Stirling

Year of Call 1997

Areas of Practice
Commercial, Damages, Family, Land & Property, Public Law & Equality

General information

• M.A (Hons) University of Edinburgh
• LL.B University of Edinburgh

Alison graduated from Edinburgh University with an Honours degree in history, and went on to studying law there too. After her traineeship she worked for a year as Legal Assistant to the Lord President (Lord Hope of Craighead) before calling to the Bar in 1997.

Alison’s practice is now almost exclusively civil. Most of her reparation cases relate to historical child abuse in institutions such as Nazareth House and Quarriers Homes, but she also does other reparation cases including medical negligence. She is also regularly instructed in family actions, including adoptions and international child abductions as well as the more usual divorce actions. Many of her cases have a Human Rights angle, and she is interested in doing more cases involving Human Rights. She has experience of judicial review and public law, and again would like to develop this.

She is Deputy Editor of Session Cases, and she tutors in Civil Court Practice at Edinburgh University.

Alison is a hardworking, reliable member of the Stable whose calm and measured approach result in her being reinstructed by agents.